George Lloyd (bishop of Chester)

He was consecrated as Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1600.[8][9] Although this bishopric was not a lucrative one, and he even commented on the "smallness of the Bishopricke".[1] Despite this, the appointment was a significant promotion and stepping stone to a more prominent position in England. Like most of his predecessors, Lloyd rarely visited the Isle of Man and there is only one recorded visit in 1603 where he attended a Consistory Court where several offenders against the spiritual law were punished.[10] Although Lloyd did have a bishop's palace on the Isle of Man, some twenty miles north of the cathedral at Peel, he significantly refurbished a fashionable townhouse at Watergate Street in Chester.[1]

In 1605 he exchanged the see of Sodor and Man for that of Chester and was consecrated in January. A former lecturer at Chester Cathedral, he was tolerant of Puritan views in his diocese.[11] During his tenure as Bishop of Chester, he reversed the anti-Puritan policies of his predecessor Richard Vaughan.[4] In local politics, he opposed Robert Whitby, a nominee of Lord Ellesmere as clerk of the Pentice, who was building a family factional position in the city.[12]

He died 1 August 1615, and was buried in Chester cathedral, where he is commemorated by a mural inscription. In the year of his death he bought Pant Iocyn, near Wrexham, formerly the residence of the Almer family, which remained the home of his family till 1634.